When we left for the lek at 5:15 AM it was 28°F. We anticipated this by studying the weather before we left, so I brought all my cold weather gear. We were planning to use the Jeep as a blind, which would require sitting still for an untold number of hours until the Gunnison sage-grouse […]

We went to the open space park adjacent to the ranch and walked the shadow pines loop. We ended the night at the inn to get set for our main goal of the trip! When we parked close to our room in the evening, I saw a pink-sided dark-eyed junco in the trees next to the […]

Prepping for CO this time of year, and for all of our destinations, meant packing for a range of conditions (20’s to 80 °F to be exact)! I also bought some new gear that worked out great today. When I got started at 7 AM, it was 30°F so I donned my new LL Bean […]

Simply sharing a link that expands on the famous Gotelli (2008) 2×2 analysis box to cases of multivariate response, mixed predictors, and other model types to consider: roadmap of statistical approaches Literature Cited Gotelli, N.J. 2008. A Primer of Ecology. 4th edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA.

http://zunzun.com/StatisticalDistributions/1/

I currently work on several projects… a contracted project for The Nature Conservancy, relating LiDAR to ground-based measures database & website management for the Coastal Wetland Monitoring (CWM) project Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council various database/web management needs for the bird & wildlife lab

I found this 40-year-old guide to north shore geology, and it’s pretty awesome! I get the sense though that roads and pull-offs have changed (go figure) as well as decades of erosion. So, some of the features listed aren’t as evident anymore. These are my current notes on this still very cool journey! The written […]

Today was the 1st time Paul and I have ever led a tour, and we were thrilled with how the day turned out! It was rewarding to be able to choose a route, and not to brag or anything, but we ended up having the best single day I’ve ever had guiding the festival! Much […]

From Birds of North America (BNA) account of northern saw-whet owls: “Owl response rates lower on nights with wind speeds above Beaufort 2 than nights with wind speeds of Beaufort 0-2 (Stedman 2001)…Clark and Anderson (Clark and Anderson 1997) found that Saw-whet Owls were more vocal when cloud cover was between 50 and 75%…Owl populations […]

This is my daydreaming list that’s as big as possible: some of these breeding confirmations won’t happen, but some could very well be confirmed with some legwork. If there was prime habitat for these species in my block, I’d love to confirm breeding for… common loon Virginia rail sora yellow rail Wilson’s snipe American woodcock […]